[mythtv-users] Pundit-R - ATI or SiS

[Mark Knecht]

Thanks Marcell,
   I see from reading the reviews on Newegg that someone named Robb
got the SiS version and says it runs MythTV for him fine. Is Robb a
member here? I hope he might speak up.

   My machines with be frontend only. It looks both versions probably work OK. 

Pundit-R - SiS - $109
Intel Celeron-D 315 Prescott 533FSB - $72
256MB Crucial PC2700 DDRAM - $27

I'll either reuse some old drive I have here or possibly go with a
network boot config if I can figure that out. For $218 seems like a
nice little system if I can make it quiet enough.

Cheers,
Mark


On 5/30/05, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 22:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   NewEgg.com has two versions of the Pundit-R. One uses an ATI chipset
> > so it's equivalent to the laptop I'm typing this on, but it costs $41
> > more than one that uses a SiS chipset which is probably closer to my
> > son's $199 desktop machine:
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&descri
> >ption=Pundit-R
> >
> > Which unit are people using for MythTV? I run mythfrontend on my
> > laptop so I'm reasonably comfortable with it's capabilities, but
> > saving $41 seems like a good thing also. My son's machine doesn't run
> > mythfrontend today so I have no idea how well that works.
> 
> I installed a Pundit-R (so with the ATI onboard VGA) for a friend of mine a
> few weeks ago with FC3 and mythTV following Jarod's guide.
> After some struggle with the ATI driver (compiled and patched from source)
> everything worked (including TV-out).
> It runs a PVR350 with the ivtv driver and mythtv-0.18 just fine. I only added
> a simple soundcard to the machine because of the optical spdif on the front
> of the Pundit-R instead of the back. The soundcard I used was a Terratec
> Aureon PCI (<$25) and installation was very easy regarding the optical spdif
> (just some mixer settings I believe).
> 
> Regards,
> Marcel
>